Pacheco Laura, McConnell David
West Montreal Readaptation Center, CUISSS-ODIM, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2017 May;30(3):501-510. doi: 10.1111/jar.12342. Epub 2017 Mar 1.
Mothers with intellectual disability are thought to be passive, dependent and in need of protection. This study contributes to a nascent body of research that challenges this schema, revealing how women with intellectual disability who are mothers resist oppression.
Narrative research methods underpinned by intersectionality theory were used to explore the lives of eight mothers with intellectual disability from various ethnocultural communities in Canada. A total of 33 in-depth interviews were conducted with these eight women over a period of 2 years.
The lives of the women who took part in this study were marked by violence. The women resisted. Their resistance strategies addressed two kinds of relationships: their relationships with others and their relationship with themselves.
The women in this study employed strategies of resistance, sometimes at great personal cost, to provide their children with a better life.
有智力障碍的母亲被认为是被动、依赖且需要保护的。本研究为新兴的一批挑战这一模式的研究做出了贡献，揭示了身为母亲的智力障碍女性是如何抵抗压迫的。
采用以交叉性理论为基础的叙事研究方法，探索加拿大不同种族文化社区的八位有智力障碍的母亲的生活。在两年时间里，对这八位女性进行了总共33次深度访谈。
参与本研究的女性的生活充满暴力。这些女性进行了抵抗。她们的抵抗策略涉及两种关系：她们与他人的关系以及她们与自己的关系。
本研究中的女性采用抵抗策略，有时要付出巨大的个人代价，只为给孩子提供更好的生活。
